Three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of the heart is a rapidly developing area of research in
medical imaging. Advances in hardware and methods for fast spatio-temporal cardiac …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart with magnetization tagging provides a
potentially useful new way to assess cardiac mechanical function, through revealing the …

Magnetic resonance (MR) tagging has shown great potential for noninvasive measurement
of the motion of a beating heart. In MR tagged images, the heart appears with a spatially …

The popularity of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in medicine is no mystery: it is non-
invasive, it produces high quality structural and functional image data, and it is very versatile …

This thesis summarizes the work carried out during my Ph. D. studies at the Image Ыciences
Institute (IЫI) of the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. The IЫI is a …

The problem of computing velocity fields from tagged MR images is considered, with
particular attention paid to the image brightness changes caused by tag pattern fading with …

Velocity‐encoded phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the potential to
quantify regional myocardial contractile function with a sensitivity to motion comparable to …

We consider Suter's (see Proc. CVPR94, Seattle, p. 939-948, 1994) DIV-CURL optical flow
methods, wherein the problem of computing a velocity field from an image sequence is …

We address the problem of quantitatively assessing myocardial function from tagged MRI
sequences. We develop a two-step method comprising (i) a motion estimation step using a …

Purpose: To validate a method for measuring 3D left ventricular (LV) strain from phase‐
unwrapped harmonic phase (HARP) images derived from tagged cardiac magnetic …